Former Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott has launched a new attack on landowners who disrupt plans to build wind farms because they might spoil their view. He points out that the government wants to be able to produce thirty gigawatts of electricity from wind energy by 2020.
At present wind farms provide four gigawatts of energy in the U.K. Prescott says that only a quarter of wind farm applications are being allowed to go through because land owners and their lawyers are managing to stall decisions and ultimately get applications turned down.
It is thought that a potential nine gigawatts of electricity are presently being held back by stalled wind farm applications. Prescott goes on to point out that landowners didn’t seem to mind when pylons were erected to supply electricity to their homes or when mobile phone masts were put up to enable them to make telephone calls. He went on to say that the same attitude should be taken towards wind turbines.
Mr. Prescott went on to say that renewable forms of energy are a necessary legacy for future generations. He said that the U.K. government had made commitments not just to its own people but also to the world and said that it was astonishing that a selfish few were standing in the way of one possible solution to climate change.
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